Texas Scorecard by Travis Morgan October 6, 2025
State attorneys are defending congressional redistricting as purely partisan rather than racially discriminatory.EL PASO—Testimony in the Texas congressional redistricting case continued Monday, focusing on expert witnesses presented by the left-wing Plaintiffs and the State.
The latest congressional map creates five new GOP-opportunity districts. Plaintiffs suing over the map include the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC).
Dr. Moon Duchin
Plaintiffs called Dr. Moon Duchin, an election data expert, as their witness.
Late Sunday evening, Plaintiffs’ attorneys submitted an updated report from Dr. Duchin. The State objected, arguing they had insufficient time to review the new report and asked the court to strike it from the record.
Judges refused to strike the report but stipulated that the Plaintiffs could not use the report during direct examination.
Dr. Duchin explained that delays in submitting her report were caused by the Plaintiffs’ delay in providing her the data she had been requesting “for months.”
Her analysis relied on election maps she had generated, attempting to make them “blind to race” while only considering partisanship. However, her maps differ substantially from the State’s proposed maps.
Duchin concluded that purely partisan considerations could therefore not have produced the 2025 maps, suggesting race must have been considered during their creation.
During cross-examination, Duchin admitted that her analysis assumed “traditional partisan considerations.” She conceded that her report might not account for other nontraditional data inputs, such as block-level partisan data, if the State had access to such information.
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